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Arguments Against Animal Testing

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Title: Animals are living creatures so they should not be used to test different types of new drugs or vaccines

Total words: 1850 (including references)

Introduction: (182words)

Medical science has come a long way and new diseases are cured with greater efficiency. New techniques, new drugs and innovative approach has saved numerous human lives. But there is a sadder, perhaps darker, truth associated with the lives our medical professionals are saving: the animals used for testing of the medicines. There is not mere testing aspect but the way they die because of we humans have to live, side effects, their testing conditions are all a concern.

Pro-animal groups see it as against humanitarian approach with the argument that animals are as …show more content…

S1: Animals mustn't be used for testing new medicines (300 words)

There are people who believe medical testing is inappropriate not just because it is inhuman but for the fact that human beings are far superior than animals and so trials on animals cannot be vouched to give similar effect on humans(Hajar, R, 2011). Some countries have proper rules for better treatment of animals being tested. It appears to be selfish on humans to use some hit and trial method for their drugs which kills the subjects or makes them invalid as animals.Medical research is evolving every day and there will be a day when these brutalities be wither done away with or minimised.

For once, if we could have 100% efficiency and accuracy for these results, we could think positively on animal testing but the situation is far worse than that. According toAnderegg,C (2002), scientists and institutes have proven, after systematic experimentation, that the animal testing is neither efficient nor reliable. This means several animals die just for no reason where there are techniques which are more effective and cheaper than animal …show more content…

Their website recently wrote that all the animals have the “ability to suffer in the same way and to the same degree that humans do.” They further write that these animals feel as we do. They experience pain, frustration, long for love, get scared, become happy like us. Putting a strong argument they said that whenever we consider interfering there needs, we are morally obligated to think about them. Animals are meant to live and enjoy in their natural habitat but the labs are lonely, stressful, monotonous and completely unnatural place for their existence however better we try to make it to them. This monotonous experience is disrupted only when they are sent for experiments which would either make them disable with side effects or just result in death.

S3:Exposure to experiment is cruel, painful and damaging to environment (202

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